Best Dyson

[nickymanley]

I am looking to buy a Dyson and was thinking of a DC08 Cylinder - however, I don't know if this is a good choice or not, any advice?

[woofgang]

http://www.dyson.co.uk/which/default.asp?placement=Floorcare3&sinavtype=pagelink

This is the link to the which dyson part of their website. I am now in my second one (first one got nibbled by a rat, long story) and I have the DC14. Its an excellent machine. deals wonderfully with dog hair and the doggy lifestyle (MUD MUD and more mud!) but is a bit heavy.

[chazza]

We have one of the upright machines and now wish we had got the other ones as the heads are so clumsy and dont get in close enough to the edges!  We've also had a few problems with it and have had our original replaced a couple of times.  Apart from that, its a reallly good machine.

 

My advice would definitely be to go for the cylinder one

[nickymanley]

Thanks guys. woofgang, I went on the dyson site and apparently a DC08 animal or a DC11 all floors is best for my needs, thanks very much!

[d0gsb0dy]

We had a Dyson and it was, quite honestly, rubbish. The idea might be OK, but the materials are poor. Among other things, the wheels fell apart and the housing cracked. Ask other owners before buying. We have a Henry now, the latest 1200watt.. Built like a brick *@!*house. And only half the price.

[woofgang]

Interesting that you should say that, dogsbody. I am a wrecker of machines (ask mr Woofgang) and they both seem to stand up to my rough handling

[d0gsb0dy]

Fair comment, Woof, but Chazza seems to have had more than her fair share of problems, so I wouldn't say that reliability was a strongpoint of Dyson.

[shaneystar]

Dysons are good up to a point.We had ,or still have ,an upright one.Great suction but you couldn't get right up to the skirting boards and using it to do the stairs was hard work to say the least.
I found emptying the cylinder a pain .Most of it used to go all over the floor again if you were not ultra careful.Then washing out the cylinder .Ugh!!
We have now got a Miele Cat and Dog.And Dyson is banished to the loft!!

[boobesque]

i have a dc08 and i love it, the best by far, in terms of suction!!

[chazza]

shaneystar thats one of the things that annoyed me most about it!  the edges were never clean!  but we never washed out the inside of it, are you meant to?

[shaneystar]

Well we have a great hairy dog and by the time the cylinder was full and I had emptied it it used to hum a bit! So I always washed it out from time to time. Quite frankly although it's a good cleaner suction wise it was more work in the end.Plus so heavy to lug about.I think our Miele is great .I know it's expensive to buy the bags ,but it's got all the tools "on board" and that's another thing the Dyson didn't have . I used to end up carrying the tools around with me in a plastic bag.And as you say you can't get up to the edges with it and...it doesn't go under things.

[sistar]

In three years of marriage, my wife has destroyed 5 vacuums, we've had a dyson animal now for nearly a year and alls well.

The only problem is its so efficient, we're emptying it every few minutes.